بالق یاغی

Ottoman Turkish

بالق یاغی

Etymology

From بالق (balık, “fish”) + یاغ (yağ, “oil, grease”).

Noun

بالق یاغی • (balık yağı)

1. fish oil, a dietary supplement made up of oil derived from the tissues of oily fish

Descendants

• Turkish: balık yağı
• → Armenian: պալըխ յաղը (paləx yaġə)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “balık yağı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 452
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالق یاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 247
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بالق یاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 335